Here's the bottom line on the issues raised by Peter Rost: We disabled his password for one reason and one reason only -- his refusal to act as part of our online community.

A little background: Peter Rost was initially invited to post about issues related to the pharmaceutical industry, his area of expertise -- but his posts increasingly became about his personal grudges and beefs or long, self-referential, diary-like entries about finding an injured bird in his front yard (complete with photos) or a blog post about his friend having an extramarital affair...

(HuffAndBlow is, of course, a take-off on the HuffPost. The Duchovny character was invented before Rost began posting to HuffPost and - spoiler warning! - is a take-off on Air America co-founder, loony loose cannon, and HuffPost contributor Sheldon Drobny That's a picture of The Captain from Gilligan's Island next to his entries.)

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It seems that this is all about advertising. JWT just bought up all of HuffPo's ad space, and Arianna Huffington is in France right now with JWT's CEO, at a marketing conference. Rost exposing a insider troll right now is bad timing for HuffPo, and they are trying to cover it up. They won't allow any truly critical comments on their behavior in this matter on their related blogs, including Peter Rost's. It's all about the money, it always is.